LiDAR point cloud support | Feature Highlight | Unreal Engine

In Unreal Engine 4.25 we’ve added support for importing, visualizing, editing, and interacting with point clouds acquired from laser scanning devices. This enables design vis specialists, manufacturers, set designers, and builders to aggregate and use huge datasets captured from the real world. Point clouds can be used to visualize locations and to give accurate context to newly designed elements.

[CatCommando]

Super neat, I just ordered intels new lidar so ill have to scan my house into vr!

[FinalPush]

This is amazing. If this would come to Twinmotion it would be a dream come true.

[MetalConn]

What is the best way to take point cloud data and add interactive elements or change the initial models? It would be great for our architecture firm to be able to take a scan and then propose variations on top of that scan to clients!

[intelligentunite]

The Ouster rev 7 would make this super neat!!

[getrekt]

Hope you guys upload a video highlight or tutorial for chaos physics implementation!

[jsebastianmunch]

Could work well with the new Lidar Sensor on the iPad Pro..🤔

[notthere]

A kind of an important piece seems missing - automated mesh creation that doesn't make everything look horrific. Until that happens, I'm not sure one can speak of "easy working with point clouds"?

[forrestallison]

great. Is there any support for CREATING and exporting point clouds, for use as training data?

[BenSherwood]

Just imagine if one day in the near future you will be able to scan an object or a small building with your iPhone 12 (built in lidar) and import the project in UE4... That's sci-fi stuff!!

[muneebhamza]

How can I playback cloud point animation sequence captured using Kinect? Through sequencer?

[vladislavkanivets]

In what format was Base in this video. for your point cloud. Or what exactly did you import in UE4?

[GeometricPidgeon]

Is it possible to edit the point cloud material while retaining the original color information

[kshitijgoel]

Can we stick AR graphics for live streams to the data generated by the lidar sensors?
Any leads on how to achieve that?

[Mystery]

Can the point cloud be converted into a mesh?

[BunnyFest]

so will it looks like just points never a mesh?

[yanhu]

Who knows which equipment can scan the large areas as the video showed?

[mk-]

Can I use this tool for point wise annotation ? So I can train neural nets to perform semantic segmentation.

[sergioflores]

Some years ago I tried to make a Photogramety based mesh to make a virtual tour for a client (that was a nightmare). it's awesome to finally know that's possible in a better way, but my question is: This only works with a point cloud or it works with a mesh built from the poincloud too?

[bobpouliotte]

@Unreal Engine
@0:30 import Point Cloud at runtime using the bleuprint API.
Can you redirect me to a page that explain the runtime import using the bleu print API ?

[grimsk]

But doesn't it support 4.24 only..? Where can I get this plugin for 4.25..?